I can see it as being a false flag operation aimed to provoke and discredit the Panthers or their sympathizers - which means that such groups were the recipients of the publication in question, but I cannot see how would that work with white families - first logistically, but also in terms of objectives this would achieve. It is not that whites sympathized with the Panthers and the cops felt they need to do something about it.
Wojtek
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> The Black Panther Coloring Book was released in 1968 and follows the journey
> of black (or white, depending on how you color them) people from Africa to
> America, where they apparently all got huge knives and started killing cops.
> It sort of makes the Black Panthers look like crazy, irrational assholes,
> which was the point, because it was made by the FBI and sent to white
> families across the country.
>
> It was a (somewhat effective) effort to discredit the Panthers as any sort
> of valid political movement and reinforce the opinion already held by a lot
> of white people at the time, that Huey P. Newton and his organization were
> psychotic militants who killed white people and cops indiscriminately. The
> art direction at the Federal Bureau of Investigation left something to be
> desired however. Let's have a look.
>
>
> Read the rest at Vice Magazine:
> <http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2010/10/26/coloring-the-black-panthers/#ixzz13V5mr5uM>COLORING
> THE BLACK PANTHERS - Viceland Today
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